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.Police have released the name of the second teenager who died in hospital after being run over at a farm close to Molong in the central west of New South Wales. William Dalton-Brown, 19, died in the Orange Base Hospital yesterday afternoon. He suffered critical injuries in the accident on Tuesday morning. In a statement to the ABC, Ms Wannan's family described her as a "beautiful girl" who was "so full of life with a bright future ahead". Eliza Wannan, also 19, died from her...

.A report evaluating reforms to Australia's family law system says the shared parental responsibility amendment was never intended to mean shared custody. A comprehensive evaluation of reforms made in 2006 found shared parental responsibility is being widely misinterpreted to mean a 50-50 custody split between parents. The report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies found the number of shared custody arrangements has increased since the reforms and that most lawyers think the changes favour fathers over mothers. The 2006 reforms encouraged parents...

.An Australian Army corporal says a man saluted him and gave him a cheeky grin minutes before a fatal boat explosion near Ashmore Reef, an inquest has heard. The Northern Territory Coroner is investigating whether the deaths of five men on the SIEV 36 last April were preventable. Corporal Bradley Bendeich said he went to check on the boat's engine with Navy engineer Thomas Dawe, who told him it had been sabotaged. "I looked to the rear and I saw an Asian-examining individual do a salute gesture...

.Victorian police are investigating reports of another sighting of missing millionaire Herman Rockefeller. The 52-year-old businessman has been missing for a week, but police have been told he was seen in Kyneton in central Victoria today. A resident of Kyneton called triple-0 about 11:45am (AEDT) to report seeing a man fitting Mr Rockefeller's description. . "They had seen a gentleman that they believed fitted the description walking by on one of the main roads," a police spokesman said. The man was not acting strangely but simply...

.At least a dozen of the country's most remote public schools are performing well below the national average, according to the Government's controversial My School website. The website, which has been hit by technical problems since it was launched early earlier today, provides parents with the results of national literacy and numeracy testing across years three, five, seven and nine in nearly 10,000 Australian schools. News Online examined 14 schools classed by the website as remote or very remote including; Richmond State High School...